Through hard experience, mathematicians have learned to subject even the most βevidentβ assertions to rigorous scrutiny, as intuition and facile reasoning can often lead them astray. However, the impossibility and impracticality of completely watertight arguments make it possible for errors to slip
Mathematical fallacies, flaws, and flimflam
β Scribed by Edward J. Barbeau
- Publisher
- Mathematical Association of America
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 185
- Series
- Spectrum series
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Subjects
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More Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam is the second volume of selections drawn mostly from The College Mathematics Journal column βFallacies, Flaws, and Flimflamβ from 2000 through 2008. The MAA published the first collection, Mathematical Flaws, Fallacies, and Flimflam, in 2000. As in the first vo
Stimulating, thought-provoking analysis of a number of the most interesting intellectual inconsistencies in mathematics, physics, and language. Delightful elucidations of methods for misunderstanding the real world of experiment (Aristotle's Circle paradox), being led astray by algebra (De Morgan's